alt Hacker NewsThe CRAY-1 was so ridiculously ahead of its time that it took until the Pentium MMX (1997) for “ordinary” computers to catch up to its raw performance.
That’s 20 years or about 10,000X the available VLSI transistors via Moore’s Law.
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chasil • today at 4:01 AM
Seymour Cray never designed a silicon microprocessor. I wonder what he would have created had that opportunity presented itself.
fnord77 • today at 2:23 AM
Not terribly impressive considering an average 20 year old super computer c. 2005 is still about 100x as fast as today's best consumer cpus
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I wonder how many times faster my iPhone 17 Pro Max is?
Sometimes I like to remind myself we are living in the future. A future that seemed like SciFi when I was a kid in the 70s!
Sadly I don’t think we will ever see Warp Drives, Time Travel or World Peace. But we might get Jet Packs!